增能视角下农村老年群体信息贫困治理研究

Study on the governance of information poverty in rural elderly groups from an empowerment perspective

中国目前正处于老龄化浪潮和信息化浪潮交汇的十字路口,而农村老年人在社会高速运转之时“被边缘化”,以致成为信息化、数字化时代下的弱势群体。信息贫困是信息化社会下呈现出的一种新型相对贫困形式,本研究结合信息使用动机和信息使用技能两个维度,划分出无动机-无技能、无动机-有技能、有动机-无技能和有动机-有技能4类信息贫困老人,并基于增能理论,完成“无力”“失力”和“弱力”3种农村老年群体信息贫困的类型匹配。针对农村老年人面临纷繁复杂的环境信息贫困,信息获取动力不足与信息使用技能孱弱的个体信息能力贫困问题,尝试从增强农村老年人个体信息素养、实行人为信息技术反哺与构建公平友好的老年信息生活环境3个层面进行优化,以期让农村老年人积极融入信息社会。

China is now at the crossroads of the aging wave and the informationization wave,and the rural elderly are“marginalized”at the time of high-speed social operation,thus becoming a disadvantaged group in the informationization and digitalization era.Infor⁃mation poverty is a new form of relative poverty in the information society.Combing with the two dimensions of information-use motiva⁃tion and information-use skills,the information-poor elderly were divided into four categories:unmotivated-unskilled,unmotivatedskilled,motivated-unskilled,and motivated-skilled.Based on the empowerment theory,three types of information poverty in rural el⁃derly groups including“incapability”“loss capability”and“weak capability”were matched.In view of the complicated environmental information poverty,the lack of motivation to obtain information and the weak information skills of the rural elderly,optimization was conducted from the information literacy of the rural elderly,the implementation of human information technology feedbacks and the construction of a fair and friendly information life environment for the elderly,in order to enable the rural elderly to actively integrate into the information society.